The music is over at the Ballhaus Riviera Ballroom, but the ballroom remains in haunting disrepair.

The world's first and only museum dedicated to dachshunds.

Powerline dead since the 1980s despite appearances.

The monument honors the first (and for a long time, only) African-born philosopher to teach at a German university.

A staggering collection of satellite models and actual flight parts.

Learn the incredible story of how an unassuming spa town was transformed into one of the world’s largest uranium mining sites.

An oversized, oddly designed pedestrian overpass has drawn comparisons to a commode for pachyderms.

A ruined castle stands atop a hill surrounded by dragon lore.

This highrise residential building looks mundane, but hides a water tower and WWII bunker.

The taxidermy remains of the first brown bear to enter Germany in 170 years.

This magnificent church allows travelers along one of Germany's busiest roadways a chance to rest and reflect.

Germany's last remaining Lenin statue has become a lightning rod of debate about the country's divided past.

Obscured within a ring of trees, this abandoned World War II relic hides on a German hillside.

If the tunes of antique organs and musical marionettes don't intoxicate you, the draft beer certainly will.

Sausages, schnitzel, and weiners.

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

First museum dedicated to the research and history of Epilepsy.

Tourists often confuse this beautifully ornate former cigarette factory for a mosque.

Amöneburg is a town perched on top of a basalt mountain in the middle of an ancient meteor crater.

At this cemetery, artists are invited to design their own gravestones.

This small Bavarian graveyard is filled with empty graves for German soldiers lost during the World Wars.

This sprawling Jewish cemetery is one of the largest in Europe.

Böttcherstraße's bells, extolling Nordic virtues and the great conquerors of the world.

The name doubles as an appropriate adjective for this small ossuary.